Why join Apex Hotels? You will receive a warm welcome into the Apex family on joining us as a Lead Grill Chef in Dundee. We genuinely care about our guests and each other and we show this through our family values of Trust, Passion, Friendliness and Teamwork. We encourage you to bring your own unique personality to the role and being yourself whilst working as part of the Kitchen team as we believe it is our personality, style and friendliness that makes Apex Hotels Role Overview: This is a great time to join our team as a Lead Grill Chef as you will play a pivotal role in delivering exceptional grilled fare and maintaining our reputation for culinary excellence. You will work closely with our supply chain partners, in house centralised services, and on property kitchen and front of teams to continue developing, researching, and implementing appropriate efficiency and quality changes across all outlets. As a Grill Chef, you will lead and manage the Quayside Bar & Grill kitchen team, ensuring the correct storage, preparation, cooking and presentation of food for all food and beverage outlets are adhered to according to Company standards. Main Responsibilities: Lead and develop the Grill Kitchen team through teamwork, skill, initiative and communication and assume a leadership role in support of the Head Chef during all periods of service. To treat all clients and colleagues in a polite and courteous manner at all times. To give full co-operation to any client or colleague requiring assistance in a prompt, caring and helpful manner. Assist with staff training, supervising all Grill kitchen staff in the preparation, cooking and service of all dishes. Assist with the recruitment and selection of Grill Kitchen staff, following the Company Recruitment and Selection Process. Responsible for ensuring Quayside Bar & Grill kitchen wage costs are controlled in line with business levels through weekly forecasting. Ensure laundry is controlled within the kitchen. To be fully conversant with the food gross profit achieved and assist the Head Chef in achieving the budgeted food G.P. in the Quayside Bar & Grill Ensure that the food hygiene regulations are followed at all times ensuring that the food is stored and rotated on a daily basis to eliminate wastage. Responsible for the people management aspects of the role, including managing attendance, performance, H&S, completing reviews, 1-2-1s, annual appraisals and training. About you: As a Grill Chef, we ask that you take pride in your work and have a willingness to learn. You will have a real passion for food, and you will have excellent attention to detail in order to provide consistent standards. This is a vital role in the function of the hotel and ultimately one that they will remember the most. You will be great at multi-tasking, you will be efficient at solving all guest enquiries and requests with ease. We love to welcome people with different experiences and from different places into our Apex family. We want to ensure you get the best experience from the role you begin your journey with us in. To excel within this role, you will have: Experience as a Senior Chef de Partie / Junior Sous Chef Food Hygiene Certificate and good awareness of Health and Safety in the work place Can demonstrate experience of contributing towards menu development and implementation and an awareness of current food trends Can demonstrate experience of assisting with cost accounting / portion and stock control and also minimising waste Can demonstrate experience of assisting with conducting monthly performance reviews / appraisals and recruitment Competent at writing professional letters and emails, compiling reports and data analysis Can demonstrate the ability to conduct individual and group training sessions with staff on key skills required within their job role. The ability to lead and motivate a team and conduct coaching sessions with staff, to increase their performance or confidence and the ability to conduct performance management sessions to improve the performance of staff members where falling below standards You will meet great people, have fun at work, develop new friendships, learn new skills, and of course you will also receive a competitive rate of pay and a generous range of employee benefits which includes: 29 days holiday Training and development from day one Employee events and celebrations Inhouse company interactive employee communication APP Entry to our state-of-the-art gym and pools Healthy meals to enjoy while you're working. Access to an external Employee Assistance Programme Financial Wellbeing App Wagestream, allowing you the flexibility to get paid earlier than your normal monthly pay date. £200 referral bonus when your friends or family join the team. Following your first successful 3 months, youll also receive Access to our discounts and wellbeing platform Treat Yourself Here, unlocking savings and experiences for you and your family. Involvement in our employee of the quarter and annual recognition schemes Long service recognition Probation pass and annual anniversary complimentary guest experience overnight stay and dinner for two 50% discount in our restaurants Cycle to Work Scheme Discounted room rates for employees, friends, and family Spa treatments and product discounts Critical Illness & Life Assurance cover We encourage you to bring your true self to work - we recruit for attitude and train for skill. Well provide great training and development opportunities, allowing you to flourish in a fun and fulfilling career, reaching your dreams and aspirations. So, whatever your vibe, our family can never be too big, theres a place here for you. We have one ask - that you bring your personality, ideas, and spark. Were an innovative, thriving business and we want you to be part of our exciting journey If you are interested, click apply. We look forward to hearing from you AMRT1_UKCT